First Anchor Books Edition, October 1995
Copyright © 1982 by Naguib Mahfouz
English translation © 1993 by The American University in Cairo Press
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday in 1995. Originally published in Arabic in 1982, under the tide Layali alf lela. Protected under the Berne Convention.
This translation is published by arrangement with The American University in Cairo Press.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows:
Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1912–
[Layālī alf laylah. English]
Arabian nights and days / Naguib Mahfouz; translated by Denys Johnson-Davies. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
I. Title.
PJ7846.A46L3913 1995
892′.736—dc20
94-6457
CIP
ISBN 9780385469012
eBook ISBN 9781101974711
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